Bus Service Suspended, Only Light Rail Forging On As Seattle Area Blanketed in Ice
King County Metro, Community Transit, Pierce Transit, Kitsap Transit, and Everett Transit suspended all service Friday due to incredibly slippery road conditions across the...
The Urbanist Podcast: Holiday Hygge
We are wrapping up the year, and our second podcast season, with an episode devoted to hygge and the holidays. Yes, we did have...
Streetcar Project Could Kickstart Downtown Recovery
The Downtown Seattle Association and new SDOT head are seeking ways to jumpstart the shelved Center City Streetcar project, such as a Cultural Connector...
Seattle Needs a Festive Outdoor Christmas Market
Seattle is a city of markets. There’s the world famous Pike Place Market, of course, and our extensive assortment of weekly and seasonal farmer’s...
Cascadia’s Chinatown Problem
According to news reports, it is difficult to walk into Chinatown without seeing urban blight and homelessness. The city’s pre-eminent ethnic neighborhood is difficult...
Alex Pedersen’s Odd Resistance to Food Trucks, Bike Lanes, and Other Adaptive Street Use
While the vast majority of Seattleites identify as progressive when polled, the City of Seattle's approach to many of its biggest problems is fundamentally...
The View from Nathan’s Bus: Our Fall of Discontent
The world was ending, or so we thought. The malaise people forgot previously existed was once again upon us, a new and bodied thing,...
Sunday Video: Third Places Are A Critical Part of Communities
Third places are a critical part of communities. They provide another space for people to be and mingle. But the suburbs and North American...